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Example sentences for "fat"

Lexicographically close words:
fastings; fastned; fastness; fastnesses; fasts; fata; fatal; fatale; fatalest; fatalism
  1. Any one who has been sea-sick knows what an aversion the nausea produces to food, especially fat meat.

  2. The sick man cried out in his agony, "O Lord God, don't talk about fat meat to me.

  3. Our little army lived high for a few days, literally feasting on the fat of the land.

  4. There you are, a fat check and three months' vacation.

  5. It is better to starve in freedom than to eat fat joints up the river.

  6. Bring her back to New York alone, Esculapius, and a fat check is yours.

  7. Her pay, until she secured some fat reward, was but twelve hundred a year; and here was five thousand in advance, with the promise of five thousand more the minute her work was done.

  8. Sophy stood forward and before she could evade the outrage, this ugly fat man had put his hands on her shoulders and given her a smacking kiss on each cheek.

  9. I happened to glance inside; there was Krauss himself and two fat natives, one a notorious budmash, and I noticed that, after I had passed, a hand pulled down the blind.

  10. The fat man with the strange pronouncements and probing questions.

  11. Layers of subcutaneous fat vanish and half-dormant sweat glands come to life.

  12. The fat is metabolized and the sweat glands enlarge and begin working overtime as the body prepares for two months of hard work, heat and little sleep.

  13. It was an easy step from the magazines to the books, and in time she knew them all, from the little dog-eared copy of Horace in the upper left-hand corner, to the fat Don Quixote in the lower right.

  14. The old man of the inn, who has got a fat stomach, and has lost two sons, asked me if I had seen the baronet, just as if you were a piece of porcelain or some other curiosity which people go to see.

  15. I demanded, though I did not exactly see why there should not be other fat women in the world besides aunt Jenny.

  16. After the persimons are ripe, they get exceedingly fat and tender.

  17. The old kidmudgar was too fat to run far; so I seized him just as he was making his exit by a gap in the garden fence.

  18. He owns no superior; wears no clothing; performs no work; despises every body and every thing; sometimes pretends to perpetual fasting; and lives on the fat of the land.

  19. A flush passed swiftly across his face and faded away, as, with quick sensitiveness, he glanced at Nicolas and another passenger, a fat priest.

  20. The miller pursed out his lips, contracted his brows, and arranged his loose waistcoat carefully on his fat stomach.

  21. The fat mother spiders and the old papa spiders were there, and all the little teeny, tiny, curly spiders, the baby ones.

  22. No, there was one big old fat rat; he was so fat he didn't sink, and he swam across, and ran away to tell the tale.

  23. To this was sometimes added the fleece fat or hump.

  24. Bees have their drones, beaver their hermits, and moose a ladified epicure who draws off from the feeding-yards of the common herd, picks out the sweetest browse of the forest, and gorges herself till fat as a gouty voluptuary.

  25. Even a fat spinster can outdistance a man with no snow-shoes.

  26. Some fat he rubbed on the soles of his feet to kill the scent.

  27. She went into her hut, and returned presently with a calabash filled with fat and a square of wax.

  28. Your medicine is not like mine," she said musingly; "but I have it in my mind now that the good white man used much fat in his medicine.

  29. Look at those fat geese in a row," said Compton.

  30. Compton had the black and grey gander, while Venning had a fat duck in tow.

  31. By-and-by there came another sound, made by some large fish, who had also been attracted by the light, and then by the fat moths.

  32. The shells must be quite full, so that there will be no danger of the fat being held in the shell.

  33. A youth was heard to remark to a jolly, fat Teutonian, "Haven't I seen you before?

  34. The little man in linen pretended not to hear, nor his fat lump of a wife, either.

  35. I darted toward her, running so noiselessly that she heard nothing, and as she got up from closing the small traps by which the chickens went in and out, I clasped her in my arms and rained on her coarse, fat face a shower of kisses.

  36. He was a little thin man, in white linen coat and waistcoat, and with a large straw hat, and his wife, a fat woman who was doing embroidery, was behind him.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fatal blow; fatal cases; fatal issue; fatal mistake; fate would; father and; father answered; father came; father dear; father died; father himself; father left; father looked; father said; father says; father should; father took; father used; father was; father went; father will; father wrote; fathers have; fathom water; fatty acids; fatty matter